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Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Jan 7, 1994 · Heaven & Earth: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro Sanruck, Supak Pititam, Joan Chen. During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese woman struggles hustling on the streets, where she comes face to face with those involved in the conflict around her.
As a freedom fighter, a hustler, young mother, a sometime prostitute, and the wife of a US. marine, the girl's relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as...
Dec 24, 1993 · Oliver Stone has made films about Vietnam from the point of view of a combat infantryman and a disabled veteran, and now in "Heaven and Earth" he completes his trilogy by viewing the war through the eyes of a Vietnamese woman.
Synopsis. Le Ly is a girl growing up in a Vietnamese village. She recalls her early 1950's childhood, spending time in the rice paddies with her young mother; the two show a very loving, devoted relationship. Le Ly is the baby of the family, the youngest child, and is often accused by her siblings of being spoiled.
Heaven & Earth is a well-intentioned glimpse into an underrepresented perspective on Vietnam, but Oliver Stone's solemn storytelling keeps audiences at a fatal distance from Hiep Thi Le's ...
Dec 25, 1993 · Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee.
